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0d2637fd63 fix: keep proxy metric status label stable, split cause into its own label (#51495)
issue: #51493

### What

#50221 split the `status` label values of `milvus_proxy_req_count` /
`milvus_proxy_grpc_latency` in place. Released in **v2.6.19**, that
silently zeroes every existing dashboard panel and alert rule matching
`status="fail"` / `status="rejected"` — an alert that stops firing
rather than erroring.

This keeps the classification but moves it onto its own dimension,
restoring the status domain to what <= v2.6.18 emitted:

```
status: success | fail | rejected | retry | total | abandon    (as before v2.6.19)
cause:  user | system | cancel | na                            (new)
```

| v2.6.19 / v2.6.20 | this PR |
|---|---|
| `status="fail_input"` | `status="fail", cause="user"` |
| `status="fail_system"` | `status="fail", cause="system"` |
| `status="rejected_user"` | `status="rejected", cause="user"` |
| `status="rejected_system"` | `status="rejected", cause="system"` |
| `status="cancel"` | `status="fail"` or `"rejected"`, `cause="cancel"`
|
| `success` / `retry` / `total` / `abandon` | unchanged, `cause="na"` |

### Why a label instead of new status values

- **Old queries work unchanged and count each request once.**
`status="fail"` is again every hard failure; Prometheus aggregates over
`cause` for free. That rollup is what a label dimension *is* — the split
forces every consumer who just wants "how many failures" to hand-write
`status=~"fail_.*"`.
- **Cardinality is unchanged.** `cause` is functionally dependent on the
outcome, so the realized `(status, cause)` pairs are exactly the series
the split already produces. Additive, not multiplicative.
- **New consumers lose nothing**: alert on `status="fail",
cause="system"`; route `cause="user"` to the owning application team.

The alternative — emitting old and new `status` values side by side
during a transition — was rejected: it defers the break rather than
removing it (the old values must still be dropped eventually, forcing
the same migration later), and meanwhile double-counts every request in
unfiltered aggregations.

`cancel` is folded into `cause` for the same reason: before v2.6.19
client cancellations were counted as `fail` (cancel in the response
status) or `rejected` (cancel at the interceptor), so promoting it to a
`status` value quietly makes `status="fail"` under-count versus older
releases. As a cause it stays excludable via `cause!="cancel"` without
redefining `status`.

### Also in this PR

- The 7 `snapshot_impl` sites that emitted a bare `fail` with no
classification now report their real cause via `failMetricLabel(err)`
(e.g. `snapshot_metadata_uri is required` is `cause="user"`, not a
system fault). Their `status` is unchanged.
- `deployments/monitor/grafana/milvus-dashboard.json`: the "Faild
Request Rate" panel goes back to `status="fail"` — a verbatim revert of
what #50221 changed, which is the compatibility claim demonstrated.
- Dev docs and stale comments that named the old label values.

### Verification

- `TestParseMetricLabelStatusDomainIsStable` pins the status domain, so
re-splitting it fails CI rather than shipping.
- Adding a label makes every `WithLabelValues` site arity-sensitive **at
runtime, not compile time** — a missed site panics in production. Unit
tests do not reach all of them (coverage shows
`GetRestoreSnapshotState`, `ListRestoreSnapshotJobs`, `PinSnapshotData`,
`UnpinSnapshotData` at 0%), so all **58 emit sites were verified
statically via AST**, not only the ones tests happen to hit.
- Passing: `pkg/metrics`, `pkg/util/requestutil`, `pkg/util/merr`,
`internal/distributed/proxy` (incl. `httpserver`, which covers the REST
emit path), and the `internal/proxy` snapshot / metric-label tests.
`golangci-lint` clean on every touched package.
- Pre-existing and unrelated: `service_test.go` bind failures (`listen
tcp :19529: address already in use`) reproduce identically on unmodified
master — a local process holds the port.

### Rollout

Should be cherry-picked to 2.6 so the window in which the fine-grained
`status` values exist stays confined to v2.6.19–v2.6.20. Users who
already adopted the new values on those two releases need a one-time
query change (`status="fail_system"` -> `status="fail",
cause="system"`); that is a known, bounded set, and preferable to
leaving every pre-2.6.19 dashboard silently broken.

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Signed-off-by: zhenshan.cao <zhenshan.cao@zilliz.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 17:18:40 +08:00
acfa147d30 doc: add error-handling casebook; harden guide/convention docs and agent entry (#50515)
Follow-up to #50221 (issue: #47420) — documentation only, no code
change.

## Why

The 60+ error misclassifications corrected during the #50221 review all
happened **with the rules documents already in place**
(`error_handling_guide.md`, `error_sentinel_convention.md`). The rules
layer was sufficient; what was missing was (a) a layer of real
positive/negative examples showing how the mistakes actually look in
code, and (b) a mandatory entry point so coding agents and new authors
read the right things before touching error handling. Linters catch
*bare* errors, but they cannot catch a *wrong* code or a *wrong*
classification — that needs case-level documentation.

## What

- **`docs/dev/error_handling_casebook.md` (new).** The seven mistake
patterns from the #50221 review, each with the actually-written wrong
form (as first drafted, caught in review) and the merged fix, citing
file + function:
1. "Looks like validation" is not user input (coordinator task types,
plan shapes)
2. Internal component output is not user input (search-reduce, recovered
panics)
  3. `WrapErrXxxErr` is a relabel, not a context-adder (code masking)
4. The cause goes in the error argument, never the format string
(`errors.Is` chain destruction)
5. InputError aborts `retry.Do`: scan before you mark (incl. the
dual-identity boundary-stamp pattern)
6. Converting an `errors.Is` control-flow sentinel to merr widens every
guard (the `errIgnored*` near-miss)
7. Boundary conversions that look wrong but are contracts (knowhere
2006, segcore wire collapse)

Plus a quick-reference table for commonly confused sentinels and a
minimum procedure for coding agents.
- **`error_handling_guide.md`**: pre-flight scan recipe (`retry.Do`
consumers) before InputError marking; `errors.Is`-widening warning
before converting a sentinel to merr; casebook cross-link.
- **`error_sentinel_convention.md`**: code-range partition table (which
100-range belongs to which family, what 65535 is, why segcore 2000–2099
is table-owned); "`milvusError.Is` matches by code" consequences;
casebook cross-link.
- **`CLAUDE.md`**: a mandatory error-handling procedure for coding
agents (blame test, `merr.Wrap`-only context rule, the two pre-flight
greps, code-range rule, guard tests + full test-go on contract changes).

All file/function citations were verified against current master
(post-#50221).

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Signed-off-by: zhenshan.cao <zhenshan.cao@zilliz.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 11:18:22 +08:00
e2787d3981 enhance: standardize error handling on merr + Sys/Input classification (#50221)
issue: #47420

## What this PR does

Project-wide migration of raw `fmt.Errorf` / `errors.New` in function
bodies onto
the `merr` framework, plus the Sys-vs-Input error classification and the
machinery it drives (retriability, fine-grained metrics, segcore
unification),
plus the convention docs and a linter that keeps it from regressing.

Scope: storage, proxy, coordinators (root/data/query), query node, data
node,
`pkg/util` & `internal/util`, expression parser, message queue,
streaming, and
misc packages. Bare raw-error usages went from ~3000 to a ~340 allowlist
(package-level sentinels / build-tag / test sites).

---

## How to review this PR

It is large but the vast majority is mechanical. Changes fall into three
tiers;
spend review budget on Part 2 and Part 3.

### Part 1 — Mechanical standardization (low risk, verify by rule)

Each converted call follows one of a small fixed set of rules. To
review, check
that each site obeys the matching rule rather than reading every line:

| Pattern | Rule |
|---|---|
| `fmt.Errorf("...")` originating a new error | →
`merr.WrapErrXxxMsg("...")` with a code matching the failure's meaning |
| Adding context to an existing typed error | → `merr.Wrap(err, "...")`
/ `merr.Wrapf(...)` — **preserves** the inner code (never `WrapErr*Err`,
which overwrites it) |
| Errors inside the streaming subsystem | → `status.New*` factories
(StreamingError), **not** merr — this is the component-internal dialect
(see `docs/dev/error_handling_guide.md`) |
| Low-level / control-flow signal caught by `errors.Is` | → kept as a
package-level `errors.New` sentinel (lowercase, same-package) |

Conventions are documented in `docs/dev/error_handling_guide.md`
(how-to) and
`docs/dev/error_sentinel_convention.md` (rules + audit). A
`gocritic`/`ruleguard`
rule (`rawmerrerror`, in `rules.go`) enforces "no raw `return
errors.New/fmt.Errorf`"
under `make verifiers`.

### Part 2 — Behavior changes (review these closely)

These are the sites where the wire contract or runtime behavior changes,
not just
the source text. Listed by category; representative locations given,
full set in
the diff.

**A. gRPC wire-code shifts: `UnexpectedError(1)/Code 65535` → typed
code.**
Where a handler previously returned a raw error (collapsed to
`Code=65535` on the
wire), it now returns a typed merr, so the client sees a real code. The
most
common shift is to `IllegalArgument(5)/Code 1100` (ParameterInvalid).
Touch
points include datanode task handlers (CreateTask/Query/Drop), proxy
Upsert,
querynode GetMetrics, datacoord CreateIndex, httpserver query-response
builder,
and typeutil schema validation. One code refinement: an index-param
validation
moved `1100` → `1101` (ParameterMissing). **Client/SDK assertions and
any code
that switched on `Code=65535` for these paths must be re-checked** (the
go_client
e2e assertions were already aligned in this PR).

**B. Prometheus `status` label contract change (externally visible).**
The proxy metric's coarse `fail` / `rejected` values are split into
`fail_input` / `fail_system` and `rejected_user` / `rejected_system` (in
`requestutil.ParseMetricLabel`; auth/privilege rejections count as
`rejected_user`), so dashboards can attribute a failure to caller vs
operator.
**Dashboards/alerts querying `status="fail"` must migrate to
`status=~"fail_.*"`, and `status="rejected"` to
`status=~"rejected_.*"`.** The
in-repo Grafana dashboard is already migrated; external dashboards built
on the
old values silently go empty after upgrade. This is the one change that
requires an ops-side migration.

**C. Retriability semantics.**
- C1: `merr.Status(err)` now forces `Retriable=false` when the error is
an
`InputError` — a malformed request can never succeed on blind retry, so
clients
never get the self-contradictory "your input is wrong but you may
retry".
- C2: `retry.Do` short-circuits an `InputError` (non-retriable) — **but
only when
  the caller did not pass a `RetryErr` predicate**. The check is an
`if c.isRetryErr != nil { ... } else if InputError { ... }` *mutually
exclusive*
branch (`pkg/util/retry/retry.go`): an explicit `RetryErr` takes
precedence and
bypasses the InputError abort. `retry.Handle` deliberately does **not**
apply
the InputError abort (its callers signal abort via `shouldRetry=false`).
Four
flusher startup callsites that must retry through transient "not ready"
errors
  were given explicit `RetryErr` escape hatches.

**D. segcore (C++→Go) error classification.**
A single shared Go-side table (`pkg/util/merr/segcore.go`) maps each
segcore code
to a merr sentinel + InputError/signal category, replacing scattered
hand-written
`if errorCode == ...` switches in the cgo wrappers. **Wire `Code` values
change
for every segcore pass-through error, not just the remapped ones.**
Named
sentinels remap (C++ `2003` → merr `2001`, `2033` → `2002`,
Folly/Knowhere codes
likewise); **all remaining pass-through codes (`2004`–`2043`, previously
surfaced to clients as raw C++ enum values) now serialize as `2000`**
(`ErrSegcore`), with the original C++ code preserved in the `Reason`
text
(`segcoreCode=...`); unknown/future codes collapse to `2000` as well
(pinned by
the `wire_code_projection` test). Transient segcore classes (object
storage /
file IO / OOM / mmap / FieldNotLoaded — 11 codes) now report
`Retriable=true`.
**Any client switching on raw segcore codes in the `2004`–`2043` range
must be
re-checked**; the in-Reason code remains available for diagnostics.
Signal
codes (PretendFinished / FollyCancel) are recognized centrally.
`errors.Is`-based
control flow on these (e.g. scheduler skip/retry) is preserved.

**E. InputError classification (25 sentinels + dynamic marks).**
25 sentinels in `errors.go` carry `WithErrorType(InputError)` (the
Collection /
ResourceGroup / Database families, `ErrIndexDuplicate`,
`ErrParameterInvalid`,
`ErrPrivilegeNotAuthenticated`, `ErrImportFailed`, `ErrQueryPlan`, ...),
plus dynamic
marks for the 8 segcore input codes (ExprInvalid, DimNotMatch,
MetricTypeInvalid, FieldIDInvalid, ...) and
`WrapErrAsInputError`. The widest blast radius is `ErrParameterInvalid`
(1100):
~2335 `WrapErrParameterInvalid*` callsites now classify as input /
non-retriable. Because of C1/C2 this changes retriability for
any path that returns these. **The audit to confirm no transient path
was
mis-marked is the single most important review item** (see Part 3). One
reverse
correction: storage field-stats parsing moved from `ErrParameterInvalid`
(input)
to `ErrDataIntegrity` — a corrupted stored stat is data corruption, not
user
input.

### Part 3 — Known risks & traps (called out proactively)

1. **`merr.Wrap` vs `WrapErr*Err` (code-masking).** `WrapErr*Err` builds
a
`wrappedMilvusError{sentinel: ErrServiceInternal}` whose `code()`
returns the
*outer* sentinel — it overwrites the inner typed code and hides the
`errors.Is`
chain. This is intentional (use it to *deliberately* downgrade), but it
was a
recurring conversion defect; the rule "add context with `merr.Wrap`,
downgrade
with `WrapErr*Err`" is enforced by convention and reviewed across the
diff.
2. **InputError × `retry.Do` blast radius.** Marking a sentinel
`InputError` makes
any `retry.Do(...)` without a `RetryErr` predicate stop retrying it.
Reviewers
should sanity-check that no transient use of the 19 newly-marked
sentinels
(especially `ErrParameterInvalid`) sits inside a retry loop that needed
to keep
   spinning. The known flusher cases were handled (see C2).
3. **The ~340 raw-error allowlist.** What remains as bare `errors.New`
is, by
design: package-level sentinels (caught by `errors.Is`), `//go:build
test`
sites, and out-of-band trees (`cmd/`, `tests/`, codegen, walimpls). The
linter
only bans the *direct-return* form; assignment-then-return escapes and
the full
no-exceptions ban are deferred to an AST-based linter (Tier 2,
documented).
4. **segcore C++ second step deferred.** This PR unifies classification
on the Go
side; splitting the dual-semantic C++ codes at the source is a
follow-up.

---

## Validation

- `make verifiers`: Go side clean (gofmt + static-check across modules,
including
  the new `rawmerrerror` rule with a 0-hit baseline repo-wide).
- `make test-go`: passing; the one real regression introduced (a
datanode
`invalid_task_type` assertion shifting `1` → `5` from a ParameterInvalid
  conversion) was fixed in-tree.
- go_client e2e CreateIndex assertions aligned to the new merr messages.

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Signed-off-by: zhenshan.cao <zhenshan.cao@zilliz.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 15:04:51 -07:00